What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life....

Englander at his best!

By
Avi Stachenfeld
on
03-19-12

Madame Bovary

By:
Gustave Flaubert,
Lydia Davis (translator)

Narrated by:
Kate Reading

Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

229

Performance

189

Story

187

Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman’s gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity....

Ironic, humorous, and restrained

By
Esther
on
05-13-13

Nutshell

By:
Ian McEwan

Narrated by:
Rory Kinnear

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Unabridged

Overall

1,392

Performance

1,260

Story

1,253

Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature....

The Long Version, and the Short.

By
Ilana
on
09-19-16

The Lake House

By:
Kate Morton

Narrated by:
Caroline Lee

Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

12,683

Performance

11,662

Story

11,647

One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace....

BRAVO!!!!!!!

By
Maria
on
10-30-15

My Brilliant Friend

The Neapolitan Novels, Book 1

By:
Elena Ferrante

Narrated by:
Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4,753

Performance

4,267

Story

4,252

My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship....

Parte Uno Dei Quattro--It's Worth it to Keep Goin'

By
W Perry Hall
on
09-14-16

The Testament of Mary

By:
Colm Toibin

Narrated by:
Meryl Streep

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

777

Performance

720

Story

707

Meryl Streep’s performance of Colm Tóibín's acclaimed portrait of Mary is hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “an ideal audiobook"....

from a non believer...

By
Taormina60
on
09-27-13

Thalia Book Club: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, with Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt and Margot Livesey

By:
Henry James

Narrated by:
Jennifer Egan,
Margot Livesy,
Fritz Weaver,
and others

Length: 1 hr and 28 mins

Original Recording

Overall

3

Performance

3

Story

2

Novelists Egan, Hustvedt and Livesey - the trio that brought Middlemarch and Anna Karenina to life at this book club - are back by popular demand to revisit James' classic....

Publisher's Summary

Colm Tóibín, beloved Irish author of The Testament of Mary and Brooklyn (now being adapted for a film starring Saoirse Ronan), in conversation about his newest novel, Nora Webster, an unforgettable portrait of an inimitable woman, her family, and the small Irish town that confines her. With Siri Hustvedt (The Blazing World).